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Ena B edited the table of contents of The Adversity Paradox: An Unconventional Guide to Achieving Uncommon Business Success Thursday, June 10, 2010.

• Introduction by J. Barry Griswell
  1. What Is Business Savvy, Anyway?
  2. The Individual Human Capital of the Business Savvy
  3. The Power of "And Then Some": The Connection Between Adversity, Individual Human Capital, and Business Savvy
  4. Just Add Introspection: Human Capital Component No. 1
  5. What Does Behavior Have to Do with Values? Everything! Human Capital Component No. 2
  6. Work Character - Sorry, but There's No Substitute for Hard Work: Human Capital Component No. 3
  7. Purpose and Passion - You Really Can Take the Work Out of Work: Human Capital Component No. 4
  8. The Transformative Power of a Lifelong Thirst for Knowledge: Human Capital Component No. 5
  9. Using the Adversity Paradox to Triumph Over Unexpected Trajectory Changes
  Epilogue: Practicing the Paradox
  Appendix
  Notes
  Acknowledgments

Ena B edited the first sentence of The Adversity Paradox: An Unconventional Guide to Achieving Uncommon Business Success Thursday, June 10, 2010.

• My coauthor, Bob Jennings, and I believe that everyone aspiring to be successful in business should read this book - MBA students, entrepreneurs, managers, corporate leaders, those just entering the workforce, those with languishing careers.

Ena B edited the table of contents of The Book on Writing Thursday, June 10, 2010.

• A Dozen Guidelines to Good Writing
  1. Keep Sentences Short, and Keep to One Main Idea Per Sentence
  2. Avoid Pretensions, Gobbledygook, and Euphemisms
  3. Change Long and Difficult Words to Short and Simple Words
  4. Be Wary of Jargon, Fad, and Cliche
  5. Use the Right Word
  6. Avoid Beginning With Long Dependent Phrases
  7. Prefer Active Verbs and the Active Voice
  8. Cut Wordiness
  9. Avoid Vague Qualifiers
  10. Prune Prepositions
  11. Limit Number and Symbol
  12. Get Right to the Point. And Stay There.

  Storytelling
  13. Archetype, Character, and Plot
  14. A Literary Analysis of a 'Real-Life' Story
  15. Don't Say Everything. At Least Don't Say it Right Now
  16. Let the Readers Do Some Work
  17. Quick, Get the Camera
  18. Masters of Metaphor
  19. Let Sound Echo Sense
  20. Write Fast, Edit Slow
  21. Speedbumps
  22. Logic and Speedy Reading

  Language and Writing Mechanics
  23. A Brief (But Not Necessarily Easy) Quiz
  24. Dispelling the Myths
  25. Style Guide

Ena B edited the summary of The Book on Writing Thursday, June 10, 2010.

• The Book on Writing contains 25 chapters in three sections:

  1) A dozen essential guidelines to good writing, from the importance of short sentences to the value of using a conversational tone.

  2) How to tell a story - how to build suspense, how to effectively describe things, how to use literar y devices.

  3) A concise handbook on writing mechanics, such as grammer, usage, punctuation and style.

Ena B edited the summary of My Fair Lazy Thursday, June 10, 2010.

• Prepare to witness a renaissance - make that a JENaissance! My Fair Lazy follows New York Times bestelling author Jen Lancaster's efforts to achieve cultural enlightment, and bears witness to the hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration she encounters along the way.

  In her quest to expand her horizons in the hopes of simultaneously expanding the material available to her as a writer and improving her inteactions with her fellow man, Jen attempts to turn the tide on her natural propensity of sloth by exposing herself to an assortment of new cultural experiences. And so we watch as she goes to her first modern-dance recital, reads canonical literature (and some less than canonical literature), rubs elbows with stars of stage and film, and tastes food that she's never even heard of, let alone thought to eat.

  In Jen's corner is a crack team of experts, including Page Six socialites, gourmet chefs, and a theater aficionado. Along the way she may discover that high-priced, stinky cheese taste exactly as bad as it smells and that her love for Kraft American Singles is forever. But one thing's for sure: Eliza Doolittle's got nothing on Jen Lancaster.

Ena B edited the table of contents of My Fair Lazy Thursday, June 10, 2010.

• 1. The Rat World/Road Rules Challenge
  2. (Not My) High School Reunion
  3. So You Think They Can Dance?
  4. Do You Have Love for New York?
  5. Outwit, Outlast, Outclassed
  6. Extreme Makeover: Dumb-Ass Edition
  7. Property Ladder
  8. The Biggest Winner
  9. The Flavor of FAIL
  10. Survivor: Chinatown
  11. Shear Jenius
  12. Wickedly Imperfect
  13. Nightmares, of the Nonkitchen Variety
  14. Either You're In or You're Out
  15. Have Fork, Will Travel
  16. The Real World: Middle Age
  17. I Love New York 2